Demoted sites contain content that is less relevant in your environment, and therefore should be ranked lower than that of all other sites. For more information, see Authoritative Pages and Demoted Sites.

Use the DemotedSites() property of the Ranking class to get the collection of demoted sites for a Shared Service Provider.

Use an indexer to return a single authoritative page from the DemotedSiteCollection object. For example, assuming the collection is assigned to a variable named demotedSites, use demotedSites[index] in Microsoft Visual C# or demotedSites(index) in Microsoft Visual Basic, where index is the index number of the demoted site in the collection, or a System.Uri object representing the demoted site's URL.

To designate a site as a demoted site, use the Create method of the DemotedSiteCollection class.